Compared to Ruirui who favors his sister, Mingming has no special preference for the gender of the baby in his mother's belly. He has only one requirement: to be obedient, especially to listen to him.
In other words, he clearly just wants a younger brother.
When he heard that it would take two or three years for his younger brothers and sisters to play with them and be his younger brother, he no longer had any interest in the baby in Lin Wei's belly.
It was just that due to Zong Shao's repeated warnings, he obviously didn't dare to get close to Lin Wei after returning home. Even if he got a little close to her unintentionally, he would immediately move away after realizing it, which made people laugh and cry.
After Mingming approached again and quickly backed away, Lin Wei couldn't help but say, "You don't have to be so nervous."
Mingming didn't react immediately and asked, "What?"
Lin Wei explained: "Mom said, you don't have to be afraid of touching me. Normal touching is fine. Just don't rush over like you usually do. If you use too much force, Mom won't be able to catch you."
Mingming stood there, digesting her mother's words and asked, "So it means I can touch my mother like this, but I can't touch my mother like this, right?"
Mingming first walked up to Lin Wei, touched her, then retreated three or four steps away and jumped towards Lin Wei, but stopped before he got close to her.
Lin Wei nodded and praised, "Smart."
When he was praised, Mingming raised his chin proudly, sat next to Lin Wei, took her arm, and said, "Dad didn't explain it clearly just now, otherwise I would have understood it a long time ago."
Lin Wei agreed: "Yeah, it's all Dad's fault."
So when Zong Shao finished washing the dishes and returned to the main house, what he saw was the mother and son hugging each other and saying bad things about him. Moreover, the mother and son were very good at pretending to be good. When he looked over, they blinked their eyes together, as if they were not the ones who had just said bad things about him.
Zong Shao: “…”
Seeing that he was silent, the mother and son huddled together and giggled.
Zong Shao didn't bother with them. He went into the bathroom to get some hot water, came out to chase them into the bathroom, stripped them of their clothes, and then went out to collect the clothes.
Because the two children grew so fast and the family's financial situation was limited, they always kept the number of their clothes within three sets all year round, and they would wear freshly dried clothes directly after taking a bath every day.
However, Zong Shao collected more than just clothes for the two children. His military uniform and Lin Wei's skirt were also there.
After collecting the clothes, Zong Shao did not carry them upstairs directly, but put them on the sofa and searched for them. While looking for clothes, he remembered to ask, "Is there any rope at home?"
"What do you need the rope for?" Lin Wei asked while eating a banana.
"I'll pull a rope down there so you don't have to climb up to collect the clothes when I'm not around." Zong Shao said as he found the clothes of the two children and put them aside.
Their clothesline was on the second floor of the kitchen. Although he had stairs built when the kitchen was constructed, the open-air stairs were fine on sunny days but would inevitably become slippery when it rained. He was afraid that Lin Wei would fall while collecting clothes when he was not at home.
After Zong Shaoyi said that, Lin Wei also thought of this possibility. She stood up and said, "I seem to have bought a rope before, but I don't know where I put it. Let me look for it." Then she opened the drawers of the chest of drawers in the living room and started searching one by one.
Lin Wei searched the living room chest of drawers but didn't find the rope. Zong Shao also looked in the kitchen cupboard, but it was empty. He came back and asked, "Are you sure you bought the rope?"
"It was certain before, but now..." Lin Wei said helplessly, "I'm not so sure anymore."
Zong Shao said, "I'll go to the supply and marketing cooperative later."
Lin Wei put down the banana peel and said, "I'll go. By the time the kids are done washing, the supply and marketing cooperative will probably be closed."
Zong Shao raised his hand and checked the time: "Probably not. I'll tell them to wash faster." He took the two children's clothes, pushed the door and walked into the bathroom and asked, "Are you done washing?"
It's impossible to be good. I used the towel as a whip, and the ground was wet, but my body was dry. Ruirui was wet from head to toe - she was wet by her brother.
Seeing Zong Shao coming in, Mingming immediately calmed down, sat in the bathtub and shouted: "I just started bathing!"
Zong Shao said with a serious face: "Then hurry up, I'll give you three minutes."
Mingming was howling even louder, stirring the towel rapidly in the bathtub, and asking Zong Shao to count slowly while washing her.
This was obviously his behavior when taking a shower. After half a year, Zong Shao had gotten used to it and ignored him. He just stared at the watch on his wrist and reminded himself every minute.
In the last ten seconds, Zong Shao put down his hands and counted: "Ten, nine, eight..."
Along with the sound of Zong Shao counting, the only sound in the bathroom was Mingming's cries, one moment her hair wasn't washed, the next her butt wasn't washed. Lin Wei, who was sitting outside, was too embarrassed to listen.
Zong Shaoze was not surprised. When the time came, he pulled a dry towel from the rack and said, "Stand up."
Mingming took advantage of the last moment to splash water on himself, while Ruirui, as usual, stood up from between his brother's splashes of water, walked to his father, took the towel and started to wipe himself.
Finally, under Zong Shao's urging, the two children finished bathing and dressing within ten minutes.
After Mingming Ruirui left, Zong Shao simply cleaned up the bathroom and said to Lin Wei, "I'm going to buy a rope first. I'll come back to mop the floor. Don't go in. It's too wet in there."
Lin Wei stood up and said, "I'll go with you."
"No need. I'll run over there and be back soon." Zong Shao opened the chest of drawers, took out the money, and strode out.
As soon as he left the house, he started running and his figure quickly disappeared from sight.
Lin Wei turned back to the living room and saw Mingming and Ruirui folding bananas around the coffee table. She reminded them, "You can only eat one each." She was afraid that if she wasn't paying attention, the two children would eat the remaining bananas and have a stomachache in the middle of the night.
"I know!"
The two brothers said in unison, but Mingming's voice was higher and Ruirui's was lower.
…
It usually takes Lin Wei seven or eight minutes to walk from home to the supply and marketing cooperative, but Zong Shao only needs to run there for about two minutes.
At 7:46, the supply and marketing cooperative had not yet closed, but there were not many customers inside. Only the sales clerk was left counting things. Hearing the noise at the door, several people who were busy counting money looked over.
Zhao Li was the first to speak: "What do you want to buy? Why are you here now?"
Zong Shao said, "I just remembered, I'll buy a rope."
The salesperson at the daily necessities counter asked, "What kind of rope do you want?"
"A thick rope for hanging clothes." Zong Shao said.
Zhao Li wondered: "Don't you have a clothesline at home? Why did you buy another one?"
"The previous clothesline was on the upper floor of the kitchen, which is not safe. I want to put another rope in the yard to hang clothes." Zong Shao said as he selected the ropes that the salesperson brought out. In the end, he chose a bundle that was two fingers thick. "Five meters."
"Is it this long?" asked the salesperson.
Zong Shao said, "Keep the extra for backup."
The salesperson collected the money first and then checked the receipt. Zong Shao bought a nylon rope, which had to be purchased with industrial coupons. After confirming that there were no old shígGdujia problems, the salesperson began to measure the rope for Zong Shao.
After measuring, the salesperson cut the rope with scissors and the deal was done.
However, Zong Shao did not leave immediately after getting the rope. Instead, he walked to the fruit counter and asked, "Sister Zhao, do you need anything later?"
"No, what's wrong?" Zhao Li asked.
"I have something to ask you."
Zhao Li's expression became serious. She looked at her colleagues and said, "Wait for me for a few minutes. I'll settle the bill and we'll go out and talk."
"I'll wait for you outside."
Zhao Li responded and lowered her head to continue calculating the bill, but she heard the salesperson at the counter next to her ask, "What does Deputy Battalion Commander Zong want to see you about?"
"How would I know? But it should be for Lin Wei."
"What happened to Lin Wei?"
"Didn't she go to the hospital today? Maybe it was because of this." Zhao Li said, looked up at the figure standing at the door, then slowly lowered her eyes and continued to settle the accounts.
After settling the bill at exactly eight o'clock, Zhao Li went out with her colleagues. Because she had something to do, she gave the task of locking the door to someone else, and she and Zong Shao left first.
Zong Shao was not the kind of person who would hesitate for a long time when he wanted to say something. He walked a little further away from the supply and marketing cooperative and made sure that there was no one around. Then he stated his purpose: "Sister Zhao, I came to you mainly to ask what you talked about when Weiwei sent you off yesterday."
really.
Zhao Li thought about it, but did not answer immediately, and asked: "What happened?"
"Something did happen. After you left yesterday, Weiwei came home and cried a lot. I asked her what happened, but she refused to tell me, so I wanted to ask what you talked about."
Although Lin Wei quickly recovered after losing control of her emotions yesterday, she also told him that she needed to think about it and would tell him the reason after a while. But his worries did not decrease. Seeing that Lin Wei was in a bad state, he hid his emotions.
Therefore, when he saw Zhao Li after entering the supply and marketing cooperative just now, Zong Shao wanted to ask her what she talked about with Lin Wei yesterday. Although he felt that Zhao Li might not be able to give him an answer, it was better than being in the dark.
Zhao Li felt a little uneasy. She had thought that what happened yesterday was nothing, but after hearing what Zong Shao said, she felt that it was a big problem.
But she didn't know whether she should tell it or not, mainly because Zong Shao asked without Lin Wei's knowledge, and she was afraid that if she said something wrong, it would cause a quarrel between the couple, and she would be guilty of a serious crime.
Zhao Li asked hesitantly: "Didn't Weiwei tell you why she was crying?"
Zong Shao shook his head: "She said she needs to think about it for a while and tell me the answer later."
"Did she really say that?" Zhao Li asked, afraid that Zong Shao was lying to her.
Zong Shao remained calm and said, "If you don't believe me, Sister Zhao, you can go ask Weiwei yourself."
Zhao Li thought that no matter how good her relationship with Lin Wei was, she was still an outsider after all, so how could she ask these questions.
However, from Zong Shao's words, Zhao Li also saw his attitude of getting to the bottom of things. After a moment of silence, she said, "We didn't really talk about anything. Yesterday, when we went out, I didn't know who was cooking braised fish outside. The smell wafted in. Weiwei felt uncomfortable. I saw that she looked like she was pregnant, so I asked her."
Zong Shao asked: "What did you ask?"
"I asked her what was wrong, and she told me that her stomach wasn't feeling well. I asked her, 'Are you sure it's your stomach?' She was very sure at first, but then she probably thought about the pregnancy, and her face turned strange. She said something impossible, so I told her to calculate the date herself, and then she..."
"What's wrong with her?"
"She turned pale."
In fact, Zhao Li still couldn't figure out why Lin Wei turned pale when she thought about being pregnant, but she still helped to make up for it: "I think Weiwei was probably too shocked at the time and couldn't recover all of a sudden. There's a phrase called, yes, tears of joy, I think Weiwei must have been like that."
Zong Shao felt that Lin Wei’s state at that time was more like pain and despair than tears of joy. But he did not deny Zhao Li's guess, but followed her words and said: "It should be."
It had already gotten dark, and there were few street lights outside the family quarters, only the cold moonlight. Zhao Li couldn't see Zong Shao's face clearly, so naturally she couldn't tell his mood at the moment... But then again, Zong Shao always had a stern face, and Zhao Li doubted that even if it was broad daylight now, she might not be able to tell what his mood was.
Since she couldn't see it, she didn't bother to think about it anymore. She just thought Zong Shao approved of her guess and said with a smile: "Yes, I think she is in a good mood today. By the way, is Weiwei pregnant with one baby, or twins?"
Zong Shao said: "Today's test result is one, but the doctor said that it is early in the month and the result is not completely accurate. We need to check again next month."
"One is good. The last time we talked, Weiwei said she wanted to have another child. Having two at once would be too harmful to the body."
Zong Shao remembered the question Lin Wei had specifically asked the doctor during the day, and nodded, "I also hope the results this time are accurate."
As they were talking, the two had reached a three-way intersection. Since Zong Shao had asked all the questions he wanted to ask and got the answers, he thanked Zhao Li, parted ways with her, and ran home.
When they got home, Lin Wei and her two children were sitting on the sofa in the living room eating strawberries. When she heard the voice, she turned around and asked, "Are you back?" She picked up the plate on the coffee table and asked, "Do you want to eat?"
Zong Shao responded, walked over to her, picked up the strawberry and put it in his mouth: "Sweet."
"Of course they are sweet. I carefully selected them all." Lin Wei said proudly. Seeing the rope in his hand, she asked jokingly, "Didn't you run to the supply and marketing cooperative? Why did it take you so long? Did you run at Mingming's speed?"
When Mingming heard his mother mention him, his mouth was red from eating so much that he looked up and emphasized: "I can run very fast!"
"Yes, the Little Flying Man of Yazhou Island is you," Lin Wei agreed with Mingming and then looked up at Zong Shao and asked, "Right, you are the father of the Little Flying Man?"
Zong Shao: "...Yes, the mother of the little flying man."
Rarity heard their names and asked, "Then what am I?"
"Stupid!" Mingming looked disgusted, stood up and said with his head held high, "You are my brother, so of course you are Xiao Feiren's brother!"
Lin Wei, Zong Shao: “…” I said you were fat and you’re out of breath.
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